Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Cook is in charge of the state archives, government mail, and gubernatorial proclamations and commissions. He is a legal go-between on matters to do with petitions and laws. He has frequently served as acting governor...
Frederick W. Cook, recently reelected Secretary of State of Massachusetts, is an authority on governmental law. After graduating from high school in 1891, he served 28 years in Somerville politics, holding the offices of assistant clerk of comimttees, assistant city clerk, and city clerk. He then ran successfully for Secretary of State. Of this office, which he has held ever since despite political tides, he says himself...
...Cook came before the public eye in the state elections in 1934 when he was the only Republican to win a major state office. Last summer Cook's name was frequently on the front pages of local newspapers. He charged that the state primaries were the worst in years so far as forgeries, irregularities, and actual fraudulent practices were concerned. Secretary Cook is also the author of "Massachusetts Voter." In 1936 he repeated his 1934 triumph by an even wider margin demonstrating his hold on the independent vote...
Pole Vault: Harding (Y), Pettingill (H), tie among Oldach (Y), Cook (H) and Wharton...
...bank's stewardship. She lost her suit after hearing her friend "Mel" Traylor admit he had made a bad guess by not liquidating the estate to get it out of a dangerous speculative position in a falling market (TIME, Nov. 20, 1933). Widow Busby went to the Cook County Circuit Court, but lost again. Still unimpressed, she appealed to the State Appellate Court...